As those of you who have been following the unfolding of this project will know, the opportunity to plot the progress of the virtual performances as they are being constructed can offer a fascinating aural insight into the evolutionary process. In place of the formative process of rehearsing, instead the project has afforded the chance to track the slow creation of the recordings – literally to track them, as the various recorded tracks are added.
Last week, we glimpsed two virtual moments that never were –
two mixes of various upper-voice recordings – and this week is the opportunity
to hear an extract from a first combining of all the voices with some of the
string instruments – another step in the gradual creation of the finished
piece.
Not all the instrumental recordings are in yet, but,
combined with the two incarnations we listened to last week, the combination of
all three tracks starts to provide an aural sense of the piece’s coming
together. The solitary soprano section recording – the combined upper-voices mix
– and now this, bringing the tenors and basses into the virtual choir and
introducing some of the instruments providing the supportive harmonic landscape
operating beneath.
For the full sense of this unfolding process, listen to all
three in sequence, starting from the virtual soprano sectional recording on the
playlist and moving upwards – it’s like a sonic flower gradually blossoming.
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